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How do you tell someone what it's like to kill a man hand to hand, run a bayonet through his guts, or shoot a sniper in the face who turns out to be a woman? How do you explain the nine-year-old boy who throws a hand grenade and kills your best friend, and then you rush into the bushes and drag him out and kill him? How do you tell them what it'... more »s like?Or about the sunsets on the mountains or the green of Viet Nam, or the sounds and the smells, and the people, the girl who can't even say your name, but you know you love her. There was nothing any of them could say. So most of them rode home in silence.« less